Re: Linux
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:09:38 -0900
emacspeak is fine if you do lots of work in the emacs environment (it
tends to be one of the main programs I use when running *nix), however
it is not a general purpose package the way JAWS is.
On 1/6/10, Jeff <jeffpaget@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
>
> No, Jaws is for windows.
> however Linux distributions come with EMACS
> here is the description:
>
> Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) announces immediate world-wide availability
> of Emacspeak 17.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's
> evolving semantic WWW.
>
> Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to
> interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio
> formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR
> <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/aster/aster-toplevel.html>-- and
> full support for W3C's Aural CSS (ACSS)
> <http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/CSS2-REC> allows Emacspeak to produce rich
> aural presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending
> all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging, Emacspeak
> speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent and
> well-integrated user interface. Available free of cost on the Internet,
> Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind
> and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal
> computer and the Internet. A rich suite of task-oriented tools
> <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak/applications.html>
> provides efficient speech-enabled access to the audio desktop and
> evolving semantic WWW. When combined with Linux running on low-cost PC
> hardware, Emacspeak/Linux provides a reliable, stable speech-friendly
> solution that opens up the Internet to visually impaired users around
> the world.
>
> Link to page here:
>
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak/
>
>
> Laura Shumate wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Is it true that Jaws for Windows can be used on Linux?
>
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